The world’s leading trade fair for photonics components, systems and applications enables advance planning for exhibitors and visitors with new trade fair dates for spring 2022. In close coordination with the industry, partners and advisory boards, Messe München has decided to postpone LASER World of PHOTONICS to April 26 to 29, 2022. World of Photonics Congress will be held in a digital format on the original dates of June 20-24, 2021.

Due to the existing travel restrictions and the currently unclear Covid-19 situation, Messe München has decided to postpone LASER World of PHOTONICS by ten months. One of the main grounds for this decision is the large share of international exhibitors and visitors, accounting for more than half of the total number of participants, a high proportion of whom come from other continents. Under the current conditions, holding LASER World of PHOTONICS in June would make it impossible for the trade fair to live up to its standard of being the world’s leading
trade fair and to provide the on-site platform for innovations and products with indepth technical discussions that is so highly valued by the industry.

“With the new date, we can offer our customers planning certainty in a timely manner,” says Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Messe München, and adds: “With this postponement of the trade fair event, we are creating the basis for a successful in-person international trade fair and following the wishes of our exhibitors and visitors.”

Dr. Dirk Berndt is Head of the Business Unit »Measurement and Testing Technology« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) in Magdeburg, Germany. Effective January 1st, 2021, the Fraunhofer Executive Board  appointed Dr.-Ing. Dirk Berndt to Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer IFF institute.

Since 2018 Dirk Berndt is member of the EMVA Board of Directors and in this role he represents the EMVA in the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders.
The EMVA Board and Team congratulate and wish Dirk success in his new responsibility.

Fraunhofer announcement in German language

AI and Deep Learning:

The EMVA is going forward with making interesting presentations available at its association website.

Watch the keynote presentation of Alex Myakov from Intel at the 2017 edition of  the Embedded Vision Europe conference titled ‘Enabling computer vision and deep learning for real life‘ and the talk of Björn Ommer from the University of Heidelberg addressing ‘Compositional visual learning and retrieval‘.

The EMVA is happy to welcome BASLER AG among its members.

Basler is a leading international manufacturer of high-quality imaging components for computer vision applications. In addition to classic area scan and line scan cameras, lenses, frame grabbers, light modules, and software, the company offers embedded vision modules and solutions, 3D products, as well as customized products and consulting services.

Basler’s products are used in a variety of markets and applications, including factory automation, medical, logistics, retail, and robotics. They are characterized by high reliability, an excellent price/performance ratio, and long-term availability.

Founded in 1988, the Basler Group employs around 800 people at its headquarters in Ahrensburg and other locations in Europe, Asia and North America. Thanks to its worldwide sales and service organization and cooperation with renowned partners, it offers solutions that fit for customers from a wide range of sectors.

The EMVA today announced that FARO Europe joined the association.

FARO is the leading global source for 3D measurement technology for 3D Metrology, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) and Public Safety Analytics. For 40 years, FARO has provided industry-leading solutions that enable customers to quickly and easily measure their world, and then use that data to make smarter decisions faster. The Company develops and markets computer-aided devices and software used for inspecting components and assemblies, production planning, documenting large volume spaces or structures in 3D, surveying and construction, as well as for investigation and reconstruction of accident sites or crime scenes.

EMVA welcomes AT – Automation Technology as new member.

AT is a global market leader in the field of special imaging sensor technology. With its IR and 3D products they develop cross-industry solutions for process optimization, plant inspection or early fire detection, which deliver highly precise and reliable results 24/7. Every component is manufactured and produced according to the highest quality and technical standards in its in-house clean room.
The unique features of our AT sensors are their high precision, their extreme speed as well as their detailed resolution. Furthermore, they convince through their flexible design and their modularity, so that the products can be adapted exactly to the requirements of the customer. It is important for AT to offer sustainable solutions that are not only technically convincing but also in terms of user-friendliness. Each product is therefore designed to be easy to install and innovative to use.

The EMVA today announced that Kowa Optimed – well known producer of lenses since the 1940’s – has joined the association.

Kowa Optimed is part of Kowa Company Limited, one of the largest privately owned companies in Japan. Founded in 1894, Kowa has grown into a multinational Japanese company actively engaged in various manufacturing and trading activities in the fields of optics, pharmaceutical, life science, textiles and various consumer products.

Ernst Rauscher, company founder, partner and managing director of RAUSCHER GmbH, passed away on November 5th after several months of serious illness at the age of 74.

Ernst Rauscher founded the company situated in Munich, Germany, in 1984 and continuously expanded it over the past four decades. With his innovative strength, his tireless personal commitment and his innate sense for technologies and markets, he was not only one of the pioneers in the vision industry, he also made RAUSCHER GmbH one of the most successful technology providers in image processing in Germany and the German speaking regions.

EMVA management and board mourns the loss of a true pioneer in the vision industry, a founding EMVA member, and a great supporter of the EMVA since its inauguration in May 2003.

Ernst Rauscher loved to meet with the vision community. He did not miss a single annual EMVA Business Conference from the first meeting in Barcelona 2003 to the most recent event in Copenhagen 2019. In countless networking events and evening sessions he inspired younger vision professionals and newcomers with his enthusiasm, experience, humor and the outstanding ability to enjoy the moment.

For the EMVA family Ernst was much more than a successful professional and respected businessman. He will be well remembered as the cheerful and optimistic person by everybody who had the pleasure to have spent time with him. Our thoughts and sympathy are with his family and the entire Rauscher team at this time of sorrow.

Click for obituary by Rauscher GmbH

The EMVA is happy to welcome Saccade Vision from Israel among its members.

Saccade Vision develops a novel three-dimensional machine vision solution for Industrial Dimensional Inspection and Vision Guided Robotics. The solution includes unique smart hybrid 3D camera and autonomous software. Employing our proprietary, patent-pending technology, we simulate the way human vision works, by “zooming” into important information on the measured part and by disregarding the non-useful information. This unique approach allows us to perform highly precise and fast three-dimensional measurements and inspection by focusing only on critical locations and increase machine vision robustness on challenging materials and in varying lighting conditions. We offer the coordinate measuring machine level of precision, resolution, and robustness at a rate of hundreds of measurements per second, making it ideal for the inline process control.

Part of the solution is an automatic conversion of a digital model of the inspected part (for example CAD drawing) directly into the machine vision. This autonomous approach helps to cut the deployment time from weeks to hours.

Pleora Technologies today announced the appointment of Jonathan Hou as President. Mr. Hou brings extensive management expertise to his new position, including most recently overseeing Pleora’s research & development efforts and long-term technology vision as Chief Technology Officer. He now leads an expanded management team focusing on continuing growth for the company as it celebrates 20 years in business. In conjunction with management team appointments, Harry Page and Mike Kelly announced their retirement as President and Chief Financial Officer respectively. Both are remaining with the company in advisory roles.